The Xbox Series X Dashboard Will 'Be The Same' As Xbox One, Claims Insider

Absolutely ridiculous

That’s fine with me, a few improvements and better speed and performance.
To much is made of the GUI, just press the tile with the game you wish to play and away you go.
It’s not like working on a PC for 8 hours a day
Multi tasking different software packages etc. It’s a game console for playing games.

Totally agree with Grot
The Nintendo Switch GUI is so simple
No fluff, press that game tile and play.

Makes sense. Since they want to have it all part of the Xbox family.

The 360 blades dashboard has been the only good dashboard.

Xbox better be careful keeping the Xbone dash. If Sony put any effort in to making a user friendly/gamer oriented dash, then the this dashboard is going to look like a joke in comparison.

Xbox series x will have an a-z tab for games I bet. Ps4 has one. 360 had one. But not Xbox One. Either that or I still can't find it.

Makes sense as they want it to be familiar regardless of what you're playing on and I quite like it. You can rearrange your games into whatever folders you like and put them in any order and they stay there, unlike PS4 where they scamper off to the right until they vanish into the library because you dared to play some other things

I'm ok with this, I mean the Xbox one dashboard is perfect. I don't know how you can improve on it..

I’m absolutely fine with this, I like the current dash, it only needs more speed and polish and I assume that the extra horsepower will deliver this with no problem.

I really dont get the hate for the Xbox UI, it’s much better than PS4’s (BTW I am a multiformat gamer and have had a PS4 since launch).

@JON22 It’s been there for as long as I can remember, go to my games and apps, click the drop down and select ‘Group by letter’. I always have my games listed like this.

To select a letter that’s later in the alphabet, or just for speed in general highlight the top letter (or actually a hashtag on my library) and click it, this displays the whole alphabet of games installed. Click the letter you want and it jumps straight to it. Very quick and easy.

I also have my games set up with small tiles. This all works great for me anyway.

No surprise here & I don’t mind. I like the current dashboard.

I think overall I preferred the PS3 XMB. I really liked the final 360 dash with the store baked in but in terms of raw functionality (such as transferring music from a flash drive to the console for custom soundtracks) nothing could beat it.

@JetmanUK I meant for the store itself like on Xbox 360. My games are already in order. Ah well. Thanks anyway.

My One mostly collects dust these days, and while that's partly due to me just being phenomenally lazy, when I booted it up recently, I was reminded of one other reason why - I just can't understand the fundamentals of its menu system for the life of me. I can't seem to interpret anything in it as being a part of a unified architecture - there doesn't seem to be a natural home or root environment from which to base navigation and structure.

Maybe that's partly due to a lack of usage on my part, and I'm not trying to be a fanboy here, but the PS4 and Switch OS' both feel intuitive to me in a way that the Xbox doesn't. Disappointed that Microsoft doesn't seem to see anything they could improve on in it.

Man the dashboard on Xbox One was terrible at launch. I honestly am not a big fan of the current dash either. Really enjoyed the 360 dashboard & ability to play any music I wanted while gaming. They did a way with a lot of simplicity for the behemoth of a dashboard now

I understand that they want to have the same UI on all consoles but they should add an option like "Go to My games and apps on launch" so when you start your console you'll just see your games if you want to. I like the current Xbox One UI the most because it has more settings and customisation options than PS4 and Switch (those UIs are like Recently Played lists) but at the same time the option I mentioned should help a lot of people that can't be bothered by anything else. Oh, and no advertising at all.

I don't get people praising the UI of Switch when 3DS and Wii U were SO much better. PS4 doesn't have a very intuitive settings menu and the home menu is just a row of big icons sorted by recently played.

Does this mean that Xbox one games can be purchased in the Xbox series X store?

@BlueOcean It's a mental trap to say that the PS4's home menu is "just" a row of icons - its simplicity and lack of clutter are a significant feature imho, not a shortcoming.

Sometimes less is more.

@Fath I don't agree, the smaller icons grid of Xbox One that you can sort in different ways is miles ahead.